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TIL that no company on earth produces VCRs or VHS tapes anymore, not even for the novelty

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Y7GmP Today I learned that Olympic gold medals are actually more than 90% silver.
ObYR TIL that a “fossil word” is a word that is generally obsolete but remains in use because it is part of an idiom. For example, amok as in “run amok”, or turpitude as in “moral turpitude”.
ByAr TIL: Duct tape should never be used for taping ducts
eOo4 TIL that in 2013, a scientific experiment at Hebrew University of Jerusalem found the evidence for something called “Herding effect” - that on sites like Reddit, 1 early upvote would boost the final comment score by an average of 25 Percent by changing perception of how people look at it
QN0We TIL That Martha’s Vineyard native Craig Kingsbury, was hired by Spielberg while filming Jaws on the island to help Robert Shaw talk and act like Quint, "a fish pier low life, a filthy wharf rat”